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Museum took a fine specimen of the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli), 

 which seems to be the first clear record for the Great Lakes. He 

 also took a Blue Goose there and a year or two ago a Parasitic 

 Jaeger. 



Somewhat later records than usual are the seeing of Chimney 

 Swifts and Nighthawks on Sept. 21st, a Hummingbird Oct. 6th, and 

 a Black-crowned Nightheron Nov. 19th. One of the periodical in- 

 cursions of great numbers of the fine Goshawk (Astur artricapillns) 

 from its Canadian home, took place in the fall. A Chicago taxi- 

 dermist took in over fifty specimens for mounting. It must have 

 been a rather general movement, as these came from all parts of 

 Illinois as well as Wisconsin and Michigan. 



Not many birds are so obliging as two long-eared Owls, 

 probably a pair, that took up their stand in a Norway spruce 

 near the writer's home. For four weeks one could go there at 

 any time during the day and find them in the same tree, in fact 

 on the same branches of it, ready for an interview. To judge from 

 the number of pellets, etc. below and in the tree, they must have 

 been there for several weeks before they were discovered. On 

 Nov. 15 th an Italian captured a Saw- whet Owl alive in a spruce 

 bush nearby and promptly wrung its head off, because its calling 

 disturbed his sleep, he said. The tragedy, that we so often meet 

 with in the lives of the wild ! 



CRITICAL NOTES ON NEW AND OLD GENERA OF 



PLANTS.— X. 



BY J. A. NIEUWLAND. 



THAMNIUM 



Because there was an older Thamnium Klotsch 1 the moss of 

 that name must receive another. Thamnobryum may be suggested. 



Thamnobryum Nom. Nov. 



Thamnium Bryol. Eur. fasc. 49-51, Mon. (1852)' not Klotsch 

 1. c. Euthamnium Kindb., Hedw. XLI 209 (1902) in part. 



1 Klotsch, J. Iv. I.inma. XII. (1838), 223. 



'-' Shimper, W. P. Royal Europ., Gen. Muse. Mon. Vol. [-VI, (1836 

 1855). 



